can't get a foot in

[Lance]

Hello. My name is Lance and I'm a composer and pianist living is Australia. 
I've been messing around with
trying to set up something with 'Lilypond' but just can't get past first base. 
I'm not a computer wizard but
neither am I a total buffoon. I downloaded everything on the 'setup.exe' on the 
Lilypond stable site and wound
up with something working in DOS that I couldn't fathom.

Surely there must be an easier step by step approach to the setting up of this 
program. I'd love to use it for
the publishing of a book of piano works that is almost ready to start 
typesetting and am sure that I could be
a constructive member of the Lilypond community given the chance to get passed 
the technical gobbledygook.

Just drowning at the moment. Can somebody get me started.

Thanks.



Lance